Votive Jars

Votive Jars

by | Jan 7, 2015 | Local materials, Land Art, Exhibiting, Votive Jar

Over the past few years I have been placing tiny Votive Jars out in the landscape as offerings to places that inspire me and hold significance within my work. This is an idea that came out of reading through some of my old Archaeological literature from my time at...
Materials from Cornwall

Materials from Cornwall

by | Nov 22, 2013 | Local materials, Exhibiting

In April of next year I am having an Exhibition at The New Craftsman, St.Ives. For this Exhibition I wanted to make some pieces with a cornish connection. Cornwall is renowned for its rich natural resources and clays, so it was an exciting opportunity to go and see...
Atencion i

Atencion i

by | May 8, 2012 | Earth to Earth, Film & Timelapse, Land Art, Exhibiting

I am very excited that my film ‘Earth to Earth’ is going to be shown at an outdoor event in the centre of Buenos Aires on the 17th of May. Alongside story-telling and poetry, video art will be shown on huge LED screens ordinarily used for advertising. The...
Aurora Borealis

Aurora Borealis

by | Jan 27, 2012 | Earth to Earth, Film & Timelapse, Making

This is the final section of my Earth to Earth film capturing the aurora borealis. 24th October 2011. Location: Carn Treliwyd, Pembrokeshire, Wales – 51° 54 N 5° 16 W Aspect: Looking North East towards Strumble Head along the North Pembrokeshire...
Bells

Bells

by | Nov 14, 2011 | Land Art, Research Grant

The starting point for this idea comes from my degree in Archaeology and Anthropology. One strong rhetoric within archaeology is that the placing of standing stones, the burial of the dead and building of monuments all has strong associations with the surrounding...
Seaweed

Seaweed

by | Jun 22, 2011 | Local materials, Votive Jar, Research Grant

I have used seaweed in my work for some time, laying it directly onto the surface of pots during firing. For years I have been meaning to test its use as a glaze component. Wood ash is commonly used in glazes as is other organic matter, I have only ever seen one...
Votive Jars

Votive Jars

by | Jun 1, 2011 | Local materials, Land Art, Votive Jar, Research Grant

I have been reading through some of my old Archaeological literature from my time at university and have come across some interesting concepts. One area that particularly caught my interest is the burial or deposit of objects within the landscape by the people of the...
Firing

Firing

by | Apr 15, 2011 | Firing, Exhibiting, Other artists & collaborations

Over the past six weeks I have been making a set of new work primarily for the the summer exhibition at The Garden Gallery in Broughton, Hampshire. Run by Rachel Bebb it is a beautiful English garden filled with sculpture from about sixty artists, both...

Echoes in Clay

by | Mar 24, 2011 | Film & Timelapse, Local materials

My brother, photojournalist Greg Rodland Buick, has completed the final edit of a short documentary about my work. I’m really pleased with how it’s turned out. The discipline of having to portray what my work is about in five or six minutes was a very...
A Nonet

A Nonet

by | Mar 17, 2011 | Other artists & collaborations

  Phases (for Adam) by Jacqui Thewless Inside the earth, the white clay is full. It is the potter who lifts it up to the librating wheel, gathering emptiness – The interior of the round jar turns dark as a...
Big Fire, Burn Pot

Big Fire, Burn Pot

by | Mar 15, 2011 | Firing, Land Art

Between the cliffs and the fields lies a stretch of common land, through which runs the Pembrokeshire Coast Path. Much of the land is now owned by the National Trust. This stretch of wilderness that can seem like a wild landscape of rock, sea and heath is in fact...
Primary clay?

Primary clay?

by | Feb 10, 2011 | Local materials

We went for a walk down to a nearby cove at the weekend.  Sitting at the base of the cliff I noticed a trickle of water running out over the bed rock.  On closer inspection the rock seemed to be decomposing.  It looked like clay. Clay is decomposed rock particularly...
Landsketch

Landsketch

by | Jan 4, 2011 | Land Art

Caer Bwdy, the source of the beautiful purply sandstone used to build St.Davids Cathedral has always been a place I am drawn to. The scale and colour of the pebbles at the cove are unique. Sketching is not something I do often enough, I think mainly because...

Linda Norris

by | Dec 31, 2010 | Other artists & collaborations

We took a trip up into the Preseli hills today to choose a painting by Linda Norris from her gallery in Maenclochog. The road up into the Preselis is very nostalgic for me from the daily school run. Every turn familiar but so rarely driven these days. In the low...
Court House

Court House

by | Dec 18, 2010 | Exhibiting

After weeks of working towards the previous firing it is wonderful to sit by an open fire and reflect on my work. I have until Tuesday when the exhibition here at Court House ends to think through all my plans for the new...
A Sea View

A Sea View

by | Dec 14, 2010 | Inspiration

Just came across this photograph I took last year. It is the view from the track up to my studio.  Some days I hardly notice the sea, others I am mesmerised.  I have already forgotten how it looked today, tomorrow will be something new.
A Collaboration

A Collaboration

by | Dec 13, 2010 | Other artists & collaborations

I have enticed renowned illustrator and writer Jackie Morris across the fields to come and draw on some mugs I made for home. I thought we should go for classic blue and white, I like things to be clean and simple but also it is a technique I have some experience of....

Earth to Earth – The experience

by | Jun 29, 2010 | Earth to Earth

As an artists who claims to be inspired by the landscape I am often critical of myself for not getting out and drawing more strongly on my inspirations. The discipline of spending forty minutes walking through the landscape looking in a meaningful way has been...

Earth to Earth – A few hours later

by | Jun 8, 2010 | Earth to Earth

By nine o’clock at night this is all that was left of my Moon Jar. The wind and rain had in a single day reduced the pot to little more than a pile of soggy shards. The foot ring of the Jar was the all that remained. Up there the weather was really wild,...

Earth to Earth – The first rain

by | Jun 7, 2010 | Earth to Earth

The anticipation to see what effect the first rain had had on the unfired clay was motivating as I climbed the hill. From afar it was still in its entirety, a sphere against the laden sky. The Jar was wet through on one side, the side that had taken the weather....

Earth to Earth – A Wall Brown

by | Jun 5, 2010 | Earth to Earth, Making

Just below the summit of Carn Treliwyd is a field of bluebells. Today as I tramped my way through them each step sent flying a myriad of insects, among them Damselflies and a Wall Brown Butterfly. I took a different route to the summit and came across another line of...

Earth to Earth – Quartz lines

by | Jun 5, 2010 | Earth to Earth

Nearing the top of Carn Treliwyd I found these lines of quartz. Ancient routes through the rocks that shape our landscape. How we use and experience a landscape is of constant interest to me.  One of the ways that shapes our experiences is the routes we take. paths...

Earth to Earth on Carn Treliwyd

by | Jun 3, 2010 | Earth to Earth

My second attempt at this project after the previous Jar was taken from the top of Clegyr Boia. A new more remote location this time on top of Carn Treliwyd. I have made a Jar from a blend of local clays, some from the moor below at Waun Llodi. This raw, unfired jar...

Who Took My Moon Jar? – Earth to Earth

by | Sep 21, 2009 | Making

I went at 6am this moring to document my new environmental art project Earth to Earth on Clegyr Boia, but the Jar had Vanished! Who would take a large heavy pot from the top of a hill? Did they think someone was out for a walk with a 20kg pot and just forgot it?...

Unfired Jar on Clegyr Boia – Earth to Earth

by | Sep 21, 2009 | Making

Earth to Earth Project – Started Monday the 27th of June 2009 On Monday evening I placed an unfired terracotta Moon Jar on the top of Clegyr Boia. Because it has not been fired it is very fragile and susceptible to the weather. The concept is to leave it in...